Being Silent And Observant Quotes

#1. It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

Oscar Wilde

#2. You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed. You're merely an extra in the production.

Jean Baudrillard

#3. I would love to re-visit Darla. I miss her. I really do.

Julie Benz

#4. Who didn't exist at the convergence of a thousand thousand stories?

Garth Risk Hallberg

#5. Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.

Adam Hamilton

#7. I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#8. I've always felt that an independent film is a film that almost doesn't get made.

Glenn Close

#9. I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.

Bo Burnham

#10. It hasn't seemed like home since you left, he said, kissing my lips.

Jamie McGuire

#11. It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

Dan Simmons

#12. We can put the chairs in a circle, but as long as they are occupied by people who have an
inner hierarchy, the circle itself will have a divided life, one more form of "living within the lie": a false community.

Parker J. Palmer

#13. The more experiences you can have as an individual makes you a fuller person and a fuller actor.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido

#14. And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being.

Eric Roberts